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GMAZ Chairman nominated for Megafest business award
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe GMAZ National Chairman Mr Tafadzwa Musarara has been nominated to receive a top business award. Musarara 2019 Megafest Top 20 Awards in the Outstand...Published: 3 hrs ago | 184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe still with us three years down the line
For Zimbabwe to achieve stability, there was to be a return to constitutionality. Sanity had escaped the political landscape. The operation restore legacy was not to be complete without order and a co...Published: 3 hrs ago | 788 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans caught in witchcraft practices in the UK
Zimbabweans in the UK have totally refused to abandon their beliefs in Witchcraft lucky charms and in superstitions. They have carried their beliefs in the United Kingdom and created a world of supers...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1972 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 930 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where we are because of them. We are part of the revoluti...Published: 3 hrs ago | 2290 | by Ntokozo Msipha
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 4 hrs ago | 370 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Chief Ndiweni's purported dethronement 'a legal nullity', claims lawyer
Chiefs from Matabeleland North on Saturday initiated a process to dethrone outspoken Ntabazinduna tribal chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni in an orchestrated move.A majority of the 41 chief...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2137 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans reject further military coups, but demand genuine electoral reforms to freely choose own leaders
If there is anything that Zimbabweans should have regrettably learnt the hard way, over the past years, is never to support or celebrate ZANU PF internal factional fighting, especially when this culmi...Published: 7 hrs ago | 2841 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Menstrual Equity Journey: 200 million dollars later
The move by government to allocate $200 million for free sanitary wear for rural school girls who menstruate, in the 2020 National Budget, is a big step in the right direction towards ending period po...Published: 7 hrs ago | 395 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their arrival, it was numerically impossible to gather i...Published: 7 hrs ago | 730 | by Ayanda Manala
Spaced out - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There was a lot of space in Parliament when Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube delivered his budget. This was partly because the opposition was boycotting the occasion but mainly because of the surprise an...Published: 7 hrs ago | 195 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Securing a personal loan - Some undeniable advantages
Why apply for a personal loan? This money can be used to finance various projects and needs in cash without having of own funds or without having ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 640 | by Staff Writer
Kasukuwere speaks on Share Ownership schemes
Exiled former Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has distanced himself from allegations that he profited from the Community Share ownership Scheme that was launched when Kasukuwere was Minister of Indiginisa...Published: 9 hrs ago | 3206 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hodzi goes after couple over unexplained wealth
Prosecutor general Kumbirai Hodzi has sought an order to forfeit a Harare couple's US$760 000 properties in Waterfalls and Borrowdale after they failed to explain how they amassed their funds against ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2528 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North remains without provincial hospital
MATABELELAND North Provincial Medical Director Dr Purgie Chimberengwa has appealed to Government to urgently complete construction of Lupane Provincial Hospital as the province faces a critical shorta...Published: 10 hrs ago | 319 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nkululeko Sibanda's property to be seized by ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is ready to hunt the corrupt beyond the grave and now wants to seize property in the estate of the late Twalumba Holdings director Dr Nkululeko Sibanda. ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1892 | by Staff reporter
Fresh woes for 11th born Chief Ndiweni
THE Matabeleland North Provincial Chiefs Assembly has recommended that the process of appointing Ntabazinduna chief be redone after a brother to the incumbent, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni challenge...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1024 | by Staff reporter
'HIV wears a woman's face'
In 2001 at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the former and late UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said "HIV has the face of a woman", and for decades even up to date it still has that face!&n...Published: 10 hrs ago | 941 | by Nyasha Phanisa Sithole
Mnangagwa courts Dubai investors
Zimbabwe intends to lure cash-rich investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to exploit opportunities in mining, tourism and manufacturing when it engages them at the 5th Global Business Forum on ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 159 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advised to cooperate with Mnangagwa
WITH President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government slowly, but surely closing the democratic space by banning most of the opposition MDC's activities, including demonstrations and rallies, analysts have s...Published: 21 hrs ago | 5470 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's DA handed back to whites
Newly elected interim leader John Steenhuisen has promised to turn the party's recent election set back into the biggest comeback in political history. Steenhuisen said this during his first m...Published: 22 hrs ago | 3650 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Autonomy and Quasi-Fiscal Activities
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Zimbabwean Government that it needs to give autonomy to its central bank if it is to avert the risk of plunging the economy into hyperinflation aft...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1013 | by Victor Bhoroma
Eating mice is not poverty its our ways
When you see an African woman coming from the woods with a big bundle of firewood balanced on her head, young daughter in tow carrying a smaller bundle of twigs in same fashion, its not child labour. ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1671 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Splinter war veterans chickens out from confronting Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE Liberation Platform, a splinter group from the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), has chickened out from confronting shortcomings of President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Recruitment of 5,000 teachers for 2020 financial year
All communications should be addressed to "The Secretary for Primary and Secondary Education" Telephone: 704421/7052811191127 and 791538 Telegraphic address: "EDUCATION' Fax: 791923 ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 10:45hrs | 5088 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants can not live on ZUPCOs alone! Zim govt should give them their worthy and dignified salaries
Never in my 46 years of existence have I been exposed to such an ignorant and arrogant government as that of Zimbabwe. Never in my life have I encountered a group of people who are divorced from reali...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2814 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2253 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe steps up battery storage
As a worsening drought slashes the country's hydropower production, creating lengthy power cuts, Zimbabwe's industries are beginning to turn to solar panels and battery storage systems to keep busines...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to give signal
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will on Wednesday make an address to the nation from Harare's Africa Unity Square in what could be a test to police, who are being accused of effectively banning the oppositi...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:02hrs | 4560 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mathema laments lack of dams
Aprominent Matabeleland South traditional leader Chief Mathema has urged the government to ensure that people in the province benefit from the vast water bodies in their region.Chief Mathema w...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Government underfire over MZWP
THE Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT), a technical partner in the ambitious project to draw water from the Zambezi River to Bulawayo, has accused government of frustrating its efforts to woo pri...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Zapu condemns police clampdown
Zapu has condemned an alleged police clampdown against villagers in Mangwe after the community staged a protest against the alleged unfair recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg Hospitals.T...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Botswana Diamonds outlines Marange mining plans
Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds (BOD) on Friday shared details of its areas of focus and strategy for the near future.This includes the ramp-up of its South African Marsfontein operation, which p...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into the comforts of State House on the back of a milit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 2058 | by Edmund Kudzai
When teaching becomes cheating
FIVE boys formed the heart of their soccer team. Tatenda, Edzai, Anesu, Chipo and Hondo were all gifted, enthusiastic players, with Tatenda starring in goal, Edzai being strong in defence, Anesu perfo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 354 | by Tim Middleton
Zupco new buses unleashed
THE first batch of the 76 Zupco buses that were commissioned by President Mnangagwa to service Bulawayo and other southern parts of the country will start plying their routes this week after the compl...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 2486 | by Staff reporter
New primary school for Gwanda
THE Gwanda Municipality has started constructing a primary school in the Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle suburb, a development expected to help decongest schools in the mining town.Last year, the munici...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to turn Victoria Falls into regional financial centre?
VICTORIA Falls should be turned into a regional financial centre for the Southern African Development Community as its tourism facilities mean it can attract the right clientele that can push the indu...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:25hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens cash barons
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:25hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
'We had informers within the Rhodesian security services'
WE continue our interview with Tapson Ncube pseudonym Makhula Thebe who in the past instalments has spoken about how dissenting voices were treated within the Zipra ranks. Viewed as a rebel, N...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt unveils electoral reform package
A provision for the electronic transmission of Presidential election results that allows for the swift release of final result tallies is being considered by Government as part of a broad electoral re...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami replaced
BULAWAYO councillors seem to have thrown in the towel regarding the status of disposed deputy mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami after they appointed a caretaker councillor to take care of business in Ward T...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
Millers sell subsided maize at +200% profit
MILLERS are allegedly engaged in massive corruption, where they access cheap maize from Grain Marketing Board, mill a small portion and then divert the rest to rural areas especially those near the co...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
POSA now history
Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA), which has been signed by President Mnangagwa into law, is expected to open up democratic space by entrenching the right to demonstrate and present petitions,...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
You have no honour here, Minister Mthuli
Far from the quixotic idealism of city life, the rural setting presents life in its most raw form, including the intimate and inextricable relationship between man and nature.Nowhere is man fo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 193 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa says economy to rebound in 2020
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
MDC rally banned
POLICE yesterday banned yet another MDC rally the second in less than a week that was scheduled for Domboshawa, Mashonaland East Province. The Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party had notified ...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:16hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons
THE government has warned that it would embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons and unscrupulous bank officials who are diverting money to the black market, the Daily News reports.Thi...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:16hrs | 2368 | by Staff reporter
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